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Posted by Neredbojias on 09/08/07 17:08
Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 07:04:07
GMT Blinky the Shark scribed:
>> I can't remember 'em all, either, and that seems like a pretty good
>> link for checkin'.
>
> I'm disappointed in a change they just made. The search box on their
> home page
>
> http://www.htmlhelp.com
>
> used to give you a simple, one-line per entry, list of hits. Now
> they've converted to a Google site search, and you don't get that
> no-nonsense results page any more.
>
> Note the lack of any ref to Google-based search on this archive of that
> page at the WayBack Machine, from April:
>
> http://web.archive.org/web/20070406173204/http://htmlhelp.com/
>
> Compare to today's search function:
>
> http://www.htmlhelp.com/index.html
I see 2 radio buttons as an option, though. Not the same?
> On the flip side, this frustration led me to find the two
> straightforward list pages (which I'd not seen before because I always
> just used the simple search):
>
> http://htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/olist.html
>
> For the other, there's a link near the top of that one for the
> alpha-sort list.
>
> I'd suggest either of those as your bookmark into the site.
>
> Also, look at this page again (my original link to this site):
>
> http://htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/block/pre.html
>
> See how "contents" says "inline elements except", followed by the
> exceptions list? Before the recent reworking, "content" simply listed
> what was allowed, rather than showing exceptions to the list that
> appears on a linked page. That's a ninor niggle, I'll grant; but I
> won't withdraw it. :)
Yeah, I'd rather have all the elements listed, myself. IT help sites
should be as detailed and obvious as possible, -in other words the
antithesis of the html 4.01 specification mess.
--
Neredbojias
Half lies are worth twice as much as whole lies.
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